Crist's Name Removed from Daytona Race Car

NBC Miami ^ | Saturday, Jul 5, 2014

[nickcarraway]

Crist's name was going to appear on Josh Wise's No. 98 car, but the decals were removed Friday because of a complaint by the Republican Party of Florida alleging that the sponsorship violated campaign finance laws.

Decals bearing the name of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist have been removed from a car competing in the Coke Zero 400 after Florida Republican officials complained.

Crist's name was going to appear on Josh Wise's No. 98 car, but the decals were removed Friday because of a complaint by the Republican Party of Florida alleging that the sponsorship violated campaign finance laws, according to the car's owner, former NASCAR driver Phil Parsons and Mike Curb, the car's entrant and associate sponsor.

Crist's name appeared in six spots on the car and the phrase "Charlie Crist for Florida" was featured across the hood of the car before the decals were removed

[Steely Tom]

My visual cortex inserted an “h” into the name.

Wonderful thing, visual preprocessing.

[smokingfrog]

[SkyDancer]

GMTA - me too.

[Veggie Todd]

Does anybody even read all those decals anyhow?

[cripplecreek]

Morgan Sheppard

[Balding_Eagle]

Maybe nobody reads them, but it costs a lot of money to get your name on a car.

[Steely Tom]

Very good!

[MUDDOG]

Like Chuck Connors getting court-martialed in “Branded.”

[Vision Thing]

Oh, Jess Crist, that title creates quite the illusion.

[cripplecreek]

Glory to God automotive used to sponsor some cars at the dirt tracks in my neck of the woods.

Glory to God Automotive Hillsdale Michigan

[cripplecreek]

Still considered one of the best advertizing values there are out there. A contending team can charge many millions for a primary sponsorship.

[Balding_Eagle]

My nephew is Chief Mechanic for a big name driver at Joe Gibbs Racing. A few years back we got the grand tour of their Charlotte shop.

There’s a lot, and I mean a LOT, of money in the business.

[MuttTheHoople]

The car simply would've been FABULOUS!

[cripplecreek]

Cool interview with Morgan Sheppard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsr_g1SoFnA

[Steely Tom]

That's mighty nice.

Not much the gay lobby can do to try to incite a media frenzy over that company.

"I'd like to buy a replacement battery for my partner's personal pleasure device. I need at least 900 cold-cranking amps please."

[RightGeek]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[RedMDer]

[Viennacon]

I was thinking it was banned because they thought that was how Christ is spelled, and the morons at Freedom from Religion threatened a lawsuit funded by Richard Dorkins.